All Chapters of Green Eyes of the Suburb: Chapter 1 
				
					- Chapter 10
				
10 chapters
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"Thank you, Ma’am," Tama smiled politely as he accepted the plastic bag of bean sprouts, weighing eight kilograms, from one of the traditional market vendors. The boy sighed in relief, after ten minutes of bargaining, he successfully managed to get the lowest price, the first time in his life. Green beans and bean sprouts were all done. All left for one, the chicken meat.Tama was given a task that used to be his older brother’s: buying certain ingredients for her mother’s restaurant that she managed along with one of her cousins. This day's shopping list just needs three items. His brother Ando went to the city due to an internship for three months, and its been a week.Right after, Tama was busy searching for the chicken butcher who was his brother’s regular, to every corner, without a chance to blink.At last, he found the vendor he was looking for.The shop man asked, "You’re Ando’s little brother, right? Your body shape is pretty similar, but behavior wise, very different.”"Yes
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Tama was under the impression that his vision was still blurry, convinced that he was experiencing hallucinations due to a recent head injury. “S-s-s-” he couldn’t even speak. He was frightened when he saw the owl. “What should we do?” a different voice color and range came to Tama’s ears. It was high-pitched, and rather calm, but he couldn’t guess where it was coming from. There was no sight of another creature he could see other than the owl. He wildly speculated it was the voice of another bird, with a smaller size his eyes barely reached.This whole madness made him urge to run away, as the best way to escape irrationalism. Too bad his physical condition made that impossible, and so, he was forced to listen to this strange conversation.“What a pity, if we let him die like that without anyone even noticing,” said the giant owl. “It’s better we give him a heal so he can live normally again.”Tama grew even more confused.“Is this real?” he questioned. Zero answer checked by the 
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Tama managed to follow the (actually, barred) instructions, making sure what he saw was not just a mere hallucination post accident. He swirled one of his right fingers to the right numerous times. In sudden, a small wind breezed for about three seconds near him, where Tama stood in a building with no open windows, nor have Air Conditioner or fan on. “Seems nothing significant,” the boy said. “That breeze… makes me realize I need more sleep.”Tama thought one cause of the accident was him staying up late until 12 AM, due to him reading  social media comments, where there’s so much debate in one reply section. It caused him to have sleep deprivation, which made him unable to focus on the road he rides. Still, that doesn’t justify what the bikers did might also at wrong.He still thought what he saw in the early morning is a bit odd. A large bodied owl is unusual.  Then it talks? Made it even freaky. That stuff must be some brain activity try to survive itself when being knocked up, d
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For a while, Tama was processing what happened. To think that, it is indeed a weird phenomenon, just like in the morning that haunted him this whole day. Crash. Destroyed. Awake. No injuries, even at the slightest. A large owl, that talks. Of course, it sounds like Tama’s mind can’t let go of such a thing, that it reappeared again in the form of a dream, with a snake this time.“Maybe it really was just a weird dream, and I got really lucky to survived all that,” he thought, shrugged it off. “I feel better now, anyway. Healthy and shine!”This additional feeling he had right now after things looked normal again, he couldn’t describe it other than that he felt very energetic, as if batteries were charged to the fullest.“Tama,” his mother’s voice called from the corridor. “If you are relatively fine now after the accident, I need you to restock the water gallon. Can you do it for me?”Tama paused. “But our motorcycle got crashed and totally broken,” he replied, possibly more as an ex
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Janie gave Tama a look. Conversation’s over. Tama nodded and grabbed the filled gallon.“Thanks,” he said. Somehow when Tama walked out of the store, he felt a bit different when he dragged, and then carried the filled gallon. Everything felt like an ease. Unlike usual, Tama didn’t feel burdened. It’s like the same weight as empty gallon he carried before. And he walked, while the sun was scorching hot, with the sticky air typical of the tropics.But Tama has yet breaking a sweat. Not stopping every five steps to complain or take a breather. No cramps, no nausea, no dizziness. Even at the time when the bike still there, where he didn’t carry it only with his feet, he still feel it a little combination of three stuff mentioned before. Should walking be way worse than that?Was he always this strong?Unfortunately…No. This was new, suspiciously new.In this hour, Mom had already gone to work, as she didn’t appear anywhere in the house. So, Tama was being left alone now. As soon as he
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Tama was extremely nervous. How would he reply?“I was lucky enough that I am still conscious, though,” he then answered.“Oh, I see,” Yana responded, flat. “Great that you turned up fine though. It’s a miracle.”“Haha, right,” that’s all Tama can say. He was highly nervous, because he can’t explain it. Not to mention, the thought that he might be in this “Green Eye” spiral myth that is not viewed good by the villagers. “I don’t need to pay hospital bills or its complicated administration.” Yana only hummed. “Well knowing this suburb economical dependence and condition… It’s better not being fractured at all. It’s already complicated in bureocracy, I won’t think anything beyond that.”Tama didn’t respond, and keep working to clean the glass. Actually, its more like Tama doesn’t know what kind of reply to cut the awkward, nervous conversation he had, so he could continue working instead.“I have noticed you have yet took a drink after few hours,” Yana commented. “Aren’t you thirsty?”
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"Oh..." Tama got mesmerized by the sightings of his surroundings, his eyes widened.Previously, there were no animals beyond the small insects or rats that came from the gutter. But this time, he witnessed various kinds of animals, which he was only able to see through the photos.A white horse, a tree leopard, a pangolin, a mountain goat, a swallow. One thing that made it different is how every animal there has green colored pupils. At first he w
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It had taken several seconds for Tama to realized, that his reaction to the bikers were taken by his brother as if his phone calls had ever end. Ando was able to hear it from the other side of the phone."Oh! I am sorry, bro!" Tama apologized. "Some of the bikers were bypassing me.""Are you walking as a pedestrian!?" From the voice, its clear that Ando was getting worried. "Oh God, I shouldn't call you in the middle of the road walking." "That's okay bro, it's neither of our faults. We should never worry if the authorities actually work to regulate those bike gangs."That single catastrophic event triggered Tama to many things at once. It broke his motorbike to the point it became a junk, and now he had to walk around since his savings have yet reached the minimum of second-hand motorbike price.Not to mention, death would approach Tama if he isn't lucky. Or if he doesn't die, he could be in a coma, with weekly hospital bills 
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The man in the car didn't continue driving. He locked the glance towards Tama's eyes while Tama was walking to the other side of the road, making the kid uncomfortable."Am I seeing something?" He freaked out. "It is something like..."Tama quickly made an excuse before the man continued to speak. "I am wearing contact lenses.""Pretty unusual for the contacts to have built-in glow-in-the-dark features," the man commented.Tama didn't bother to reply, he doesn't want to engage more in the conversation. The boy acted like he didn’t know the myth at all, like most of the youth in the suburb. Thus, the man continued to drive his car.What was that about? Tama wondered. So someone can see my eyes? Is that bad news or not?All the judgement would be made depending on the appearance of the stigma, wherever the inhabitants believe it or not. The last two generations don't seem to believe it, so he is safe. If anything, it would only be an outlier fashion style. When Tama arrived home, he go
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All of this discovery drove Tama into one thing: maximize the way he gets money when doing freelance services.  He literally can go inside through portal hopping. Can he bring things there? It could be used to move trash without a trace in an easiest and safest way. No trash in the house without walking kilometers away to the garbage dump? Awesome. The next day, before doing human activities in the suburban society, he went inside Snake's world. However, he found them sleeping in the corner of the house. Tama began to wonder how time worked here. It seemed like time moved in the opposite direction. Unable to wait, Tama slowly poked the snake.
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